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Is it just me or have there been a lot of posts lately from accounts with overall negative comment karma.
In this case, his negative comment karma comes from heavy involvement in subs regarding overseas affairs (i.e., opinions about current events in Israel). His question about learning elisp was genuine.
Not just you and it's not just /r/emacs or /r/org-mode, I've seen them in other places as well. While the guy in /r/org-mode wasn't one, most of them write so poorly that they must be ESL people and argue about minute things that well-adjusted (genuine?) people wouldn't argue about.
The other thing I'm seeing is an increase in duplicated posts to multiple forums asking fragmentary, barely coherent questions. Writing this, I just had the obvious epiphany that my assumption--there's a person at the other end--might be wrong.
Hm, yeah, imagine some kind of service that takes a question from a user and posts it on Reddit, then feeds the answers into its own ML model and gives something back to the user (with a significant delay, obviously, so maybe more for training purposes).
There was a post here within the past couple of months that, when I looked at its account history, seemed to be obviously some kind of bot, but its writing was coherent enough to seem authentic in isolation.
Seems like a dark time for the Web is coming. :/